Sea the Stars retires to stud

Oh interesting. Thought he was off to the Breeders Cup.

Glad he'll not run again - although what a magnicent performance and a fitting swan song the Arc was.
 
Fantastic News! So pleased and relieved!
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I'm glad. He has nothing to prove, he has given his owner his all and thank God has escaped injury. He is only three years old and to my mind he has done enough. Well done Sea the Stars - his real earning is only just beginning.
 
I can't deny that I am not sad to see him train on at 4. It would have been awesome for the sport!! However, it is a) exciting that we are throwing about ideas of what mare(s) to send to him next year (depending on where he stands and fee) and b) it gives our guy more of a chance in the BC Classic!!
 
I bet you are biting your nails on which way Zenyatta goes then !!!

Gitano Hernando has been extended an invite to contend the
Classic and has earned a bayer of 106 on the Pro Ride, so that should be interesting and is getting the US a little worried that the classic is wide open to a European raid if Zenyatta goes for the ladies instead! It's our best chance before it goes back on the dirt for next year.

Will be really intersting to see what lines STS combines well with, his is a weaker outcross ped than Galileo, but he should be able to give some clues to how half bro will perform! STS has only 1 Northern Dancer x so there is lots of possibilities,

That 1st season fee's going to be big me thinks, being tight I'd wait for year 2!!!! Hope he stays in Europe, I wonder if they'd like a nice quiet test mare with spots?????????????
 
am SO glad this decision has been made- he has nothing more to prove and it would have been awful if he had been injured or worse, cos it would have been sods law!! good luck to him in Ireland with his breeding!!
 
The only reason he has been retired to stud is his owner stands to gain upto a 100 million in fees,pure greed!!
I love what this horse has achieved but would have liked to see the results of him racing as a 4yr old,it is a shame for racing that he wont stay on in training next yr!
 
I would have loved him to have run, had he not won his rating would have remained the same but if he had won I would have expected him to become the highest rated horse of all time. I had heard that he will stand at the National Stud in Ireland for an undisclosed fee to a limited band of select mares but that was after the Arc so things could have changed.
 
It is almost certain that as the chap who used to run the IN no longer does and that he is the RM for the Tsui's, that STS will not stand there.
 
I really don't think that you can attribute his retirement to owner greed, the Tsui family that own him really seem to enjoy watching him race and the 100 million is currently a purely speculative figure!

I am glad he has been retired as I don't think he has anything left to prove to anyone. He has won 6 Group One's this year, two of those have been Classics and the other 4 he has competed against and beaten all ages. He is retiring as a true champion.
 
Hadfos, I think that's going a bit far! I don't think "owner greed" comes into it. Of course the Tsui family are going to benefit from his stud career, but personally I think that the greed would have been sending him to the BC.

As one of the RP journalists wrote yesterday, it's not so much that STS has nothing left to prove, more how much more do we (the admiring public) expect from him. The answer is nothing. He has done everything asked of him and I for one applaud the connections' decision to let him retire at the very top of his tree.

I just pray now he makes a huge success of his stud career, which as we saw with George Washington is by no means assured.
 
Can I ask a really stupid question, as a 'stud' what will he being doing? Apart from the obvious
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- but how often? Will he be out in pasture? Or is he so valuable that he will be stabled most of the time? Will he still be ridden at all?

I know the answers will be largely speculative but I just wondered in general what standing at stud involved.
 
generally speaking 'at stud' they aren't ridden any more, they usually get turnout (on their own, in paddocks with high fencing!) and they get lots of covering duties through the season...! i won't hazard a guess at how often, it depends how many mares they allow him, and how often he covers them.
he'll live like a king from now on. i thought i read somewhere that they were going to build a new stallion station just for him?
 
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